Chapter 321 – A Thousand Sins

All the people who …… had been howling at this moment were collectively much quieter.

Just about everyone, in droves, backed away.

It’s just a shame …… that they obviously can’t retreat.

“Who are you …… to know what this place is?”

No one responded to them.

Because …… the lieutenant received orders to kill all but the official uniform and the readers.

Thus …… in three strokes, the influx of lieutenants began to draw their swords.

Wherever the light of the sword passed, there was a rain of blood.

One by one, individuals fell, many with cries of resignation and agonized grief.

Others fell to the ground, not yet dead, with miserable cries coming from their mouths.

In fact, if they knew that to die a painful death now, in a sense, is actually not a kind of luck, think not to be so reluctant.

One by one, individuals fell, and in a matter of moments, the front yard of this courtroom was littered with corpses.

Immediately afterward, it was the lieutenants who entered from all sides, over the high wall, and began to search from all sides.

The remaining people who still survived kept retreating all the way to the corner.

In front of them were countless swords.

Fan Yi’s face was blue, and he looked panicked.

Only at this time, he had gradually realized that these people in front of him were not the so-called thieves.

It’s the government army, and it’s the elite government army.

He struggled to suppress the panic in his heart and shouted under his breath, “I am an official of the court …… I am an official of the court ……”

Everyone was pressed against the wall and just hated that their bodies were one with the wall.

At this point, the crowd began to automatically divide into paths.

Then he saw Zhu Di carrying his hands behind his back, leading his ministers in a slow pace, and then stood still, gazing at Fan Yi and the others.

Fan Yi immediately said, “I’m not guilty, I’m not guilty.”

In his eagerness to defend himself, his speech was slurred.

Zhu sneered and suddenly glanced at Yang Rong behind him, “Is he guilty?”

Yang Rong said, “The evil is monstrous.”

Zhu Di said, “What should be done?”

Yang Rong said, “Behead them.”

Zhu Di looked at Hu Guang again and said, “What does Minister Hu think?”

Hu Guang said, “Confiscate the family property and behead them after the fall.”

Zhu Di looked at Jin Chun and said, “What does Secretary Jin think?”

The Ministry of Justice, Jin Chun, this is the body of guilt, this Ningguo House happened, even he felt shocked.

There are some things that, until you see them for yourself, it’s impossible to imagine that people can be evil to such an extent.

He was seeing with his own eyes that many of the healers were being held in that illuminated mill, ready to be put to the torch.

There are some things that you won’t be able to touch if you just go and hear about them.

But to actually see it with his own eyes, the feeling of fear has so far haunted him.

Jin Chun said, “Your Majesty, the crime is against his family, and to add another article, his wife and children should be exiled.”

That Fan Yi and the others listened, their faces were already miserable.

Zhu Di remained still dissatisfied and eventually looked at Zhang Anshi.

Zhang Anshi said, “Within the five clans, all of them were exiled, close relatives were executed, and as for myself, I was cut off.”

Or Zhang Anshi is ruthless.

However, Zhang Anshi has so far not forgotten that he is mindful of human resources, the concept of the five clans can not be small, and at every turn, hundreds and thousands of people are involved.

If they are all exiled, and if they are accidentally sent to a place in Xinzhou, the problem of manpower can be effectively solved again.

Zhu Di finally said at this time, “Good, come to people …… to take down all of them.”

When they heard these words, Fan Yi’s people and the others, each of their faces turned horribly white.

That’s when they realized how lucky those who were killed were.

To think that the closest relatives are implicated, to think that distant relatives are all exiled, this is like a complete wipeout.

One has worked hard all one’s life, and in the end, everything is destroyed.

In the face of absolute force, he has wept bitterly, plopped down on the ground, sadly said: “Your Majesty, Your Majesty, even if I am guilty, but what is the guilt of my wife and children? They …… they …… are good people …… and my mother, my mother has been eating fasting and reciting Buddha for decades … …Your Majesty, be merciful, be merciful ……”

When Zhu Di heard this, he just disdainfully hooked up a cold smile.

And then the eyes, which seemed like knife blades, skimmed to the side.

Zhang Anshi at this time but burst into anger, cold voice: “You also know your parents wife and children innocent? You know, why don’t you think about it, this Ningguo Fu, how many people’s parents, wives and children are innocent? Now to pretend what pity! How many people because you this dog, wife and son separated, you now take your parents wife and child to beg for leniency. Today do not kill your parents wife and children, then the world millions of people like you, will be more emboldened, heh …… then how many people will suffer?”

Fan Yi was only shocked to the soul, and said periodically, “Throughout the dynasties, only emperors like Shang Zhou treated their subjects so well and used such torture …….”

Zhu Di at this time suddenly opened his mouth: “Then I will do Shang Zhou, this will do Sui Yang Emperor, if Shang Zhou and Sui Yang Emperor can kill your whole family, I will do such a dim king, what else do you have to say?”

When Fan Yi heard this, his entire body was even more frightened.

Basically, the words said to this point, he has self-knowledge, then suddenly said, “It is Jian Gong …… is Jian Gong …… We are just following orders. Your Majesty, I was wronged, is Jian Gong order, we are subordinate officials, how can I dare not comply with the order and behavior?”

Standing behind Zhu Di’s Yang Rong, Hu Guang people, etc., this is still feel that the punishment is too heavy, although they hate it, but still feel that this easily wipe out the minister’s close relatives, the five banished precedent, I’m afraid that sooner or later in the future into a blazing fire trend, open the mouth, can not be closed.

But now …… listening to this Fan Yi s sophistry, coupled with what they learned from Wu Zhi Zhan, there is only an unspoken disgust in their hearts.

Zhu Di haha laughed and looked at him contemptuously, “Well said, none of you want to run, every one of you has a share, so …… there is no need to pass the buck for your own sins, come on people …… take down ……”

As the lieutenants obeyed the order, they swarmed up and escorted Fan Yi and the others, as if they were carrying chicken cubs, with ease.

Fan Yi was still yelling under his breath.

At this time, someone tremblingly said, “I …… I …… am not a sinful official, I am an ordinary citizen, I am an ordinary citizen.”

But it is a spandex Confucian shirt old man, at this time to complain about the injustice.

Zhu only slanted a glance, indifference in his eyes.

The man still shouted: “I do not have a post on me, but just ordinary people, why do you want to take me? Your majesty …… should we arrest ordinary people who are good?”

The seven or eight township sages and gentry around him also begged bitterly, “We are wronged, wronged, a thousand times wronged.”

Seeing Zhu standing and not moving.

Zhang Anshi went up to him, “These ones don’t need to be tied up, and there’s no need to make things difficult, they’re not guilty of anything yet.”

The townspeople and squires were relieved.

Yang Rong and the others nodded their heads secretly, their greatest fear of the court was that they would kill innocents indiscriminately because of His Majesty’s rage.

The old man who was in the lead hurriedly saluted Zhang Anshi, “Many thanks …… Many thanks …… Little man Xia Chang, just ordinary people, students …… students …… this will leave.”

“Leave?” Zhang Anshi suddenly revealed an expression worthy of amusement, then said, “What kind of place do you think this is, to come and go as you say?”

Xia Chang was shocked and busily said, “Little, little is not guilty.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Without checking, how can I know whether you are guilty or not? Come on, ask them to sit idly on one side and send someone to check their homes. Take a look and see if they have hidden fields, and if they have hidden households. Then there …… is the matter of levying ding, whether there is any part of them. And then go to check, whether there is the evil traces of scourge of the township in ordinary days. Especially this hidden households and hidden fields, this is all the tax silver of the imperial court, but they conceal it, making the imperial court suffer a huge loss, what kind of crime is this?”

“This is deceiving the king and the government, it is stealing the treasury. To put it in a heavier way, the taxes of the court and the government, they all dare to steal, bold to such a point, I see …… that they even dare to conspire against the government. Therefore, check again properly, their homes, whether they have hidden weapons and torture instruments. Did not find, to deceive the emperor punishment, once found, the crime of plotting rebellion, plagiarized, kill, exile, how to punish how to punish.”

“Here.”

That Xia Chang only felt his brain buzzing when he heard it.

Hidden fields and hidden households are the most routine operations, and there is no one who does not do this on a regular basis.

And it’s the kind of thing that’s also in-reel.

But where there are township sages, a little bit of conscience, think the court and the government has a difficult time, the ordinary small people have to bear such a heavy tax, they more or less should pay grain tax. Then …… others do not have to pay, favoring you alone to pay. People can save a thousand stone of rice a year, but you only six or seven hundred stone, a meet what disaster, people granary are grain, your family and how much grain?

The final result …… of this kind of conscience is not worth a penny at all, because after ten or twenty years, people rely on this kind of accumulation, take advantage of the disaster to annex a large number of land, by then the land owned may be three times five times or even ten times of your land, after slowly pulling the gap with you, as long as your family encounters the slightest crisis, it may be that your family is in the middle of the road. The rest of the gentry will be like vultures, your family’s land chewed to the bone.

Therefore, the process of land accumulation and annexation is itself the same as primitive capital accumulation, which is itself a zero-sum game. The so-called conscientious gentry are merely those who do not pay taxes on weekdays, and then make a big effort to annex the land of the bankrupt farmers in times of calamities, and then take out a tiny bit of money and grain to give some gruel and water.

Even such charity, there is a corresponding remuneration, because between any great disaster, to encourage the squires and townspeople to do good deeds, often the court and the government, there will be a corresponding reward for the number of places in the supervision of the students, or other aspects of the care.

How is it possible to go purely for good?

That’s a loser, isn’t it?

In the ancient order of the countryside, the interests of the family, is the root of everything, to determine a person’s character, is always a person whether to maximize the family to bring a steady stream of benefits!

Even if one person wants to send a good deed, once it goes too far, it will inevitably be strongly opposed by the entire family houses as well as uncles and brothers.

Human attributes, on the contrary, gradually degenerate.

This is rather like some latter-day so-called large companies in general, the so-called president, must be in line with the interests of the shareholders, once against the interests of the shareholders, may he do a good thing, but in fact, in his that circle, destined to infamy.

To put it bluntly, it is because of such rules of the game that such countryside moral standards were formulated, and the mechanism of the so-called family law and clan law that matched them, on which the theoretical foundation similar to the Confucian and Mencius way was born.

Not to mention the Ningguo Mansion, even in the whole world, how many families don’t have hidden households and hidden fields?

As for weapons and instruments of lynching ……

Who doesn’t have them? Without them, how can the family and clan laws be a deterrent? And what about disobedient tenants?

Xia Chang exclaimed at this time, “You are forcing our people to die, this is to ……”

Zhang Anshi took a step forward, his heart had long been on fire.

I Zhang Anshi enough lack of morality, you are even more than I lack of morality, I Zhang Anshi still know that I lack of morality, so I do not dare to stand on the moral high ground, usually have their tails between their legs to do people, never vibrantly pretend that they are what good people. But this old dog, got a huge advantage, and still dare to call himself a small people?

Zhang Anshi stepped forward and snapped ……

Six or seven backhanded slaps down.

In his entire life, this Xia Chang had never been insulted in this way.

Zhang Anshi said, “Old dog, if you dare to chatter again, I’ll cut you up.”

So Xia Chang and the others, no longer daring to open their mouths, only wept vigorously, as if they had been subjected to great grievances and wrongdoings.

Zhu Di gave these people a disgusted look, then said, “Where is Jian Yi?”

With that, he continued to enter the depths of this mansion.

By the time they reached the light house, the place had long been surrounded by people.

Someone kicked in the door.

Zhu stepped into it, and saw that in this room, a person was hanging in mid-air, swaying.

The cripple …… hanged himself.

Zhu only frowned.

“Fearful of committing suicide.” Zhu sneered disdainfully.

On the contrary, Yang Rong, Hu Guang people, although known Jianyi sins, but after all, there is some friendship on weekdays.

At that moment, can not help but slightly red eyes, just hold back, don’t look away, can’t bear to see this Minister of the Ministry of Justice, such a mess.

Xia Yuan Ji is more sad, because …… the time of Emperor Tai Zu Gao, Jian Yi and Xia Yuan Ji are known as the two gentlemen, when the time, the two had to drink together, together with the oath of alliance, to help the world, and in the future, if you can enter the center, it is necessary to set up the life of the people, to set up an unparalleled success.

At that time, they had all been young and spirited, with the pride that is characteristic of readers.

They are the best of men, the best of young talents, and they shed tears when they read about the rise and fall of the world, and when they talk about the plight of the people, they are in pain.

They even talked by candlelight over how to reduce the people’s labor, and when they got excited, they used tea instead of wine and exclaimed that they were happy.

But now …… what Xia Yuanji sees is only a Jian Gong who is defeated.

Zhang Anshi went forward and saw on the paperwork, a note.

He took the note, only glanced at it, and then sent it to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di took it, and when he looked down, he saw four words written on the note: “A Thousand Sins!”

Zhu looked at the four words indifferently.

Everyone was silent.

“Jian Gong …… Jian Gong ……” Xia Yuan Ji finally could not hold back, sudden howling.

He grabbed up and made a move to remove Jianyi’s corpse.

A few lieutenants had to go up to help, the corpse was taken down, Xia Yuanji lest anyone see the ugly state of Jianyi’s self-immolation at this time, hastened to use his own long sleeve, covering Jianyi’s hideous face.

Zhang Anshi simply took a square handkerchief and had it delivered to Xia Yuanji.

Xia Yuanji carefully used a square handkerchief to cover Jianyi’s face, and after placing it securely, he couldn’t help bawling again.

Zhu Di was furious and said, “What are you crying for, this is how it should be for such a man of ten thousand deaths,”

But Natsubara Yoshi couldn’t hold back his tears, he just pounded his chest and fell to his feet, he couldn’t contain his tears and he couldn’t control his emotions.

Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty, it has been found that ……”

He paused, and then said: “Although Jian Gong is the Minister of the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice, but his family does not have a lot of surplus wealth. The last raid, copied from his home, the most expensive is only worth three silver ink stone, the rest is more books, and then nothing else. His wife and children …… weekday life, only than the ordinary people’s home to some solid, I also heard, when the emperor and his majesty had given him a lot of generous gifts, he took to help some of the imperial examinations in the capital, poor and desperate readers …… ”

Zhu Di’s face, at last, eased slightly.

At this time, Jianyi gave off a, well, indefinable emotion.

Zhu Di then turned around and walked away, while saying, “Converge his corpse and bury it hastily, no big burial.”

There were sighs and sighs from the crowd.

Opened the House vault.

Discovering that at this time, the treasury of this Ningguo Mansion was, in fact, empty.

Immediately afterward, one by one, the playbills were sent in.

Those who were to be apprehended in various places were brought to justice.

And there really is a bubonic plague in Ningguo’s capital city.

At this moment, many people panicked and advised Zhu Di to return to the capital immediately.

Zhu Di, on the other hand, looks unusually calm at this moment, saying, “Order Zhang Anshi, immediately deploy the Model Battalion and the Jin Yiwei to clean up the streets and put medicine on the spot. There is no need to panic, the sky can not collapse, I am here, the people here can only be at peace, only teach them to follow the instructions of the government to act, out of the big mess.”

One by one, the raids on the mansions began.

Outside the capital city, all those who were immediately executed were taken to the outskirts of the city, and after they were executed, the bones were burned on the spot, and then dug a pit to bury them.

The Ministry of Justice, Jin Chun, has begun to command the police, according to the map, continue to check the clues. The entire Ningguo Mansion, a solemn.

Zhang Anshi had people carry Yao Guangxiao’s corpse to the light house and had it fed warm water.

Zhang Anshi always felt that the monk …… seemed to be still hanging on a breath.

Toward evening.

Suddenly …… Chen Li hurriedly came and said, “Duke Yao …… has come back from the dead!”

Zhang Anshi was actually uncertain before, and at this time, he couldn’t help but say, “Really? If he doesn’t die like this, he really has become a Buddha.”

But hearing that Yao Guangxiao did not die, Zhang Anshi’s heart, which had been low for a long time, was still truly relieved.

Chen Li, however, worriedly said, “I think …… should …… be oil exhausted, it seems that there is something that can not be assured, has been hanging breath… …”

Zhang Anshi frowned in surprise, and that heart that had finally loosened up, sank all of a sudden again.

But this kind of thing, he actually knew that some people had clearly reached the limit of their life mechanism, but because of holding certain regrets, they kept holding on.

How much willpower and obsession does it take?

“This monk …… seems …… to be really likely to cultivate into a proper Buddha.” Zhang Anshi said with a bit of sadness and emotion, “Take me there.”

When Zhang Anshi arrived, Zhu Di had already arrived and everyone was waiting outside.

Zhu finally hasn’t been able to hold it together yet, and comes down in tears.

Couch.

Yao Guangxiao couldn’t break his eyes, he stretched out his withered hand, only this withered hand only moved a little.

Zhu was busy is grabbing his hand, this hand is cold to the bone.

Yao Guangxiao gently opened his mouth, and Zhu Di had to stick his ear to Yao Guangxiao’s mouth.

Yao Guangxiao used a low voice and said intermittently, “Your Majesty …… poor monk …… has been interacting with Your Majesty for many years, and Your Majesty ascended to the great throne …… Everyone said to the minister that …… the monk was wrong, wrong …… Today …… the poor monk realized that …… the monk was not wrong. …… The poor monk …… has no regrets in death.”

Zhu held his hand tightly, as if he was afraid he would lose it all at once, and choked in his mouth, “Don’t say it, don’t say it, you rest, you can surely survive.”

Yao Guangxiao said: “Live not down, poor monk is …… want to see His Majesty again, come …… to come before …… poor monk thought, poor monk dust matter has been, there is no …… no more attachment, but at the last time …… poor monk but suddenly …… in thought, no matter what, also want to see your majesty again, take a look at your majesty, the poor monk has a lot of words to say, but …… can already say no more, can see your majesty, will already know enough. ”

Zhu Di old tears, pathos, “I …… can not afford to master Yao, I ……”

Yao Guangxiao said, “Your Majesty …… pass the mantle of poor monks, Zhang Anshi also …… this person in …… poor monks will be in, he lives, poor monks even though the death is also live! ……”

Although Yao Guangxiao could not open his eyes, but when he said this, he seemed to bring a smile, he was unusually calm, and with a very weak voice, he said, “Your Majesty …… this person …… has a loss of small details, but he has a great wisdom and great courage, and your Majesty should rely on him …… so …… in that case ……”

He started talking gibberish afterward, “In that case …… many children …… will be able to laugh ……”

He looked like he was tired, and paused before adding, “Please call Zhang Anshi …… Your Majesty call Zhang Anshi ……”

Fearing that he still had regrets, Zhu ran quickly to open the door and shouted, “Zhang Anshi!”

Zhang Anshi was also busy coming in at a trot.

With his hands behind his back, Zhu stood by the window, looking up and not letting the tears fall.

Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, had reached the sickbed.

Yao Guangxiao seemed to have sensed Zhang Anshi’s breath and his lips moved in a barely audible manner.

Seeing him do so, Zhang Anshi was busy bending down.

Yao Guangxiao’s lips were barely able to open and close anymore, as if he was using a trachea to make a sound so low that it was almost unrecognizable.

“You …… you have to remember ah …… if the conflict can not be avoided, the swords and soldiers …… also … … also inevitably happen, then …… do not be a woman’s benevolence …… to make the first move, to cut off the roots and roots, and break …… must not be mindful of mercy …… bear in mind, bear in mind ah …… must not …… womanizer benevolence …… when the break, the opposite of its chaos. Don …… t be gullible enough to believe what others say about benevolence, righteousness and morality, you have to be more evil than they are, more ruthless …… than they are.”

This was the first time that Yao Guangxiao didn’t talk about money when he talked to him.

Zhang Anshi cried, and the tears fell drop by drop like sudden raindrops.

He was beginning to miss it, when the other man asked him for joss stick money.

Zhang Anshi wiped his tears vigorously as he said, “I …… know ……”

Yao Guangxiao continued, “If …… if deception can paralyze others, then deceive them …… if …… if killing can solve the problem. Then don’t hesitate …… don’t hesitate when things go wrong ……”

“Don’t …… don’t take a step …… life in the world …… life in the world… …It may seem that there are many choices, but …… but in reality …… all mortals have no choices from the time they are born, the poor monk is so, and you …… you are also so. Your only choice …… choice …… is to live, meet the stone that blocks your way, you …… you kick him hard, meet the person who stops you, kill him. You …… have to live and live well ……”

He said, seeming to have used up the last bit of his breath, but as if he had not yet finished, he said softly, “Call your majesty …… your majesty.”

Zhang Anshi busily said, “Your Majesty.”

Zhu was already in tears and walked over in a hurry.

And just at this time …… this monk, with a jerk, opened his eyes.

These eyes …… still have a divine look.

He opened his mouth, and suddenly his volume got a little louder: “Zhang Anshi is like a poor monk’s flesh and blood, and if Your Majesty remembers the poor monk’s …… poor monk’s merits, all the favors are added to Zhang Anshi’s body …… he … …He is good to give the poor monk …… to send the end of his life …… to send the end of his life ……”

The words fell.

The eyes, though open, had lost all their splendor.

Yao Guangxiao gradually stiffened.

But at this moment, on his face, he seemed to maintain a mysterious and unpredictable smile.

Just like the usual Yao Guangxiao, forever mysterious and unpredictable.

Zhu subconsciously said, “Amitabha, Amitabha.”

Zhang Anshi, on the other hand, had already taken two steps back and paid heavy obeisance, kowtowing three times towards Yao Guangxiao, trying to stand up but realizing that he seemed to be drained of energy and only wanted to fall to the ground and cry.

Zhu Di stood frozen in place, he looked closely at Yao Guangxiao, silent, half speechless.

In the end, he went forward, pulled Yao Guangxiao’s hand, solemnly said: “Qing and go, your aftermath, there is Zhang Qing care, what you are mindful of, I will teach you this life without regrets.”

After saying that, Zhu seemed to have aged a lot all of a sudden.

Zhang Anshi was still crouching on the ground, and there came low, deep, mournful cries.

Zhu Di, however, violently walked to Zhang Anshi’s side, grabbed Zhang Anshi’s back flap, and picked him up like a chicken cub.

He tensed his face, trying hard to open his eyes wide, seems like this, can let the tears dissatisfaction overflow, said quietly: “no need to grieve, master yao’s disposition, I know, he has no regrets, if there is any regrets, but also only hated you this guy, always too weak. Will wipe the tears, twisted, like a woman in general, do what great things.”

Said, Zhu Di but suddenly a moment did not collapse, suddenly bawled: “Master Yao is dead, my Master Yao …… he died …… ”

The voice was like a bell, with endless grief.

Zhang Anshi just wiped his tears, then the man went numb: “……”

The ministers outside, hearing the commotion, were startled, and also seemed to understand something at once.

The people were busy pushing the door, and when they saw this, they were all as if they had died.

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